Catherine Hickland News

For most people, when they see a series of stunning red dresses - covering a handful of beautiful ladies - they stop and stare. That's the goal of Project Red Dress, as the event hopes to raise awareness of women's heart disease.

One Life to Live actress Catherine Hickland is part of it.

"I have made so many great friends in Jonesboro. I don't even know how many times I come here anymore. Whenever I come here I eat at the same restaurants, I meet new people, I have great friends," Hickland told an Arkansas TV station.

The One Life to Live star will be in Jonesboro, Arkansas over the next couple of days promoting Project Red Dress.

"I lost my father to heart disease and my mom has had open heart surgery twice, so I really have to be interested in this, " she said.

The red dress is a symbol for women and heart disease awareness, as these outfits will be on display around the southern city, most often at The Mall At Turtle Creek.

Proceeds raised through Project Red Dress will benefit the Cardiology Associates Foundation.

On March 29, Catherine Hickland and Kathy Brier will co-host a Night of a Thousand Gowns.

The event is a charity ball and silent auction that will benefit the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America and the Bailey House, an organization that provides housing for those homeless who are suffering from HIV/AIDS.

Here are more details on how you can join these One Life to Live stars, as they contribute to such a worthwhile cause:

Where: The Broadway Ballroom in the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Times Square, Broadway at 46th Street in New York City, NY

Ticket Information: Gala Admission is $250 and includes the Four Course Dinner and Open Bar; General Admission is $100 and includes an Open Bar & Viennese Dessert Buffet. Call 212-501-4797 or 1-866-533-4269 for details.

Catherine Hickland, star of One Life to Live, chatted with Soap Opera Digest for its February 5 issue. The publication has published a few of the star's best lines from that interview:

"My three favorite words after ‘I love you' are, ‘And so what?' Really, if it's not a death in the family, for crying out loud, and so what? You're going to get past it."

"Until we take responsibility, there is no growing." — On her philosophy that we contribute to our own heartache

"Everything starts in the mind, so if you think about your ideal body weight and your ideal face and you take care of yourself, I believe you can control a lot of aging with your mind." — On striving to look the same at 90

"Sometimes, we just have to let things go. We have to let people go, maybe not forever, but when you see that someone isn't going to be able to rise to what you aspire the relationship to be, you have to let them go." 

Read all Hickland's quotes now.

Catherine Hickland is a veteran of six - yes, six! - soap operas. Still, do you know all there is to know about this current One Life to Live star?

Check out these fun facts:

• Is separated from Michael E. Knight (Tad, All My Children), who she married on June 27, 1992.

• Was married to Baywatch's David Hasselhoff (ex-Snapper, The Young and the Restless) from 1984-89.

• Has been good friends with Kin Shriner (Keith, As the World Turns) since their days together on the show Texas.

• Subbed for Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke, The Bold and the Beautiful) for a few days in 1987 when Lang was sick.

• One Life to Live role was only supposed to last a day.

• Released a CD, Sincerely Broadway, in 2001.

When Catherine Hickland heard she was being nabbed as a killer on One Life to Live, she did what she always does: she made the best of it.

The actress kept the storyline a secret, preparing to give the final result her all as an actress.

“When I saw what was coming, I said, ‘Omigod, this is an opportunity to do the best work of my career and not worry what people will think of me.’ … I knew I had all the tools to perform the hell out of it, so I decided to enjoy this moment," she said.

"I remember when I used to watch Guiding Light, when Cynthia Watros (ex-Annie) won the Emmy Award, and for some reason I thought this could be my Watros moment. So I went for it.”

Guilty!

That was the verdict handed down last week, when it was discovered that Lindsay (Catherine Hickland) was behind the murder of Spencer on One Life to Live?

But does this mean that the actress is leaving the show? Not a chance, Hickland says.

She told Soap Opera Digest that she's sticking around Llanview for the foreseeable future. Guess we'll need to keep watching to see how all this plays out.